Robert E. Lee once said, "It is well that war is so terrible, or we should get too fond of it." Ezrael missed that quote in his eloquent essay about this war, but he didn't miss much else. I'm only sorry I didn't read it until today, four days after he posted it. Go read.
Who lost Turkey? That's a little unfair; Turkey may not be lost, but the relationship is certainly frayed. It's an interesting story of misunderstandings on both sides, which leads me to think that even when negotiating from strength, it's often useful to pretend you don't realize that strength. In a geographically-related story, a Kurdish uprising in the North is regarded less than favorably by the Administration.
I woke up this morning to get the paper, and the headline read, "Suicide Attack in Central Iraq Kills Four GIs. My immediate thought was "Oh, great; welcome to the Gaza Strip". I suppose that puts me in the group described here as a holder of fickle opinions. Of course, in my case, my opinion was predisposed to think this could degenerate badly post-war; this does nothing to reverse that feeling.
The commission investigating September 11 has, after an argument, gotten what it believes is enough money to continue its work. You may recall that the original budget was $3M, which was nine times smaller than the budget to investigate the shuttle disaster. It's been bumped up to $11M, so now it's increased to just under half that size. Priorities, priorities.
Posted by Linkmeister at March 29, 2003 08:13 AM